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London and the culture of homosexuality, 1885-1914
- Author
- Cook, Matt.
- Title
- London and the culture of homosexuality, 1885-1914 / Matt Cook.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Description
- xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam031/2003046120.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam032/2003046120.html
- Series
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 39
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-219) and index.
- Contents
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- 1. London and the cities of the plain; 'The sweepings of Sodom': London, 1700-1914; 'Rebuilding the cities of the plain': London, 1885-1914
- 2. The grossly indecent city; The law and the press; Bodies, streets and perfumed rooms; 'Lifting the veil' on vice
- 3. The inverted city; The city and sexual pathology; Metropolitan case studies; Erotic anthropology
- 4. The decadent city; 'Against nature'; Dorian Gray and Teleny's decadent outings; The decadent menace
- 5. The Hellenic city; London, Athens and the rural idyll; Reform and the urban scene
- Public spaces/private lives.
- Kinsey subjects
- Homosexuality--Male--England--London. Homosexuality history--Male.
- ISBN
- 0521822076